Cl*), 
-OHch that variety of Tre^s, planted in good order , and on a// ^des’p 
that he will not know which way to caft his Eye firllj To many Ob/e^f^ 
will invire him. Perhaps he will Hnd himfelf didra^ted with as much 
diverting variety^ as a young Gentleman or Lady is wont to be, when 
they firlt come out of the Country, and cake the diverEon of the King 
intiidc Kark, in good Weather, on a Sunday Evening, when the Town 
is falls I need not delcribe the Charms, the Lullre, the Attractions 
of Laving OhjeBi there, Originals in the greateft perfeClion that Nature 
ever drew, and fuch Malierpieces of Man and Womankind, as neither 
Italy it felf, nor all the World perhaps, can equal, or Ihcw the like, as 
in this our Paradife of Women^ as England has been often and juftly 
called *, nor need I hint how the Eyes of young Comers do there nim- 
bly rowl about, not without pain fometimes, and even danger of Di*- 
lloition. 
The Dutch Brabant (to fay nothing now of the Veluvac) from 
gctfvp to Breda i Boifleduc , and fo to Grave ^ is for much the 
greateft part a barren and Tandy Countrey, where Horfes do feldom tra- 
vel above a League an hour. It is indeed a very ftrong ir9»<#er, and 
hard to be attempted ; and therefore the French, when they made their 
memorabler Inroad on thefe Provinces, in the Year 1^71. thought it more 
advifeable to hazard the difficult pafTage of the ^mc it felf, by fwim- 
m;ng one of the greateft Rivers of Europe , than to make its Attack 
upon any part of this large Frontier, where the Towns W’crc foftrong, 
and Forage would have been fo fcarce, 
I was never in Friefdand, nor Groningen , and therefore (hall fay no- " 
thing of thofe Parts. Once I rid from Dkren to ^tphen, over the IJJel, 
in order to fee a mod Noble and Magnificent Houfe of the Right Ho- 
nourable the Earl of Albemarle , that his Lordfliip has lately built a-; 
bout half a League from Zutphen, and from which City there is a very 
fpacious Avenue, or Accefs made to the between a double Row 
Trees-, his LordlTiip pofTefling a confiderable Efiate in that Province; 
This Houfe has ISJoble Gardens adjoining to it, and made after the greacefl 
Models, with Terras'Walks, Fountains, Cafeadet, Canals, ^c. But they 
were not then finifhed, no more than the Houfe, when I went to fee them-j 
after the lall Campagne. 
His Lordjhip is defeended of an Ancient Family in this Country, aai 
was Baron of lieppell, or Happell, a Town of note in the JurifdiClion of * 
^tphen , before he was made an EngUjh Etrl', and his Lordfhip is 
aumitted among the Noblemen of Holland, which compofe one part of 
the Statei, or have their Reprefentation in the States General 
It is now twenty years fince I was in ^ealand, having been then fenc 
to VluJJtng, to fee a lick Gentleman *, whom after I had, through God’s ^ 
Blelfing, foon put into a Rate of fafety, I went to fee J^Liddkburght and 
